A girl raised by Russian immigrants in an Appalachian mining community encounters hardships and love in Mary Kay Zuravleff’s evocative historical novel "American Ending". In a western Pennsylvania coal mining town in the early 1900s,... Read More

At sixty and retired, Marianne Bohr and her husband felt fit and ready for adventure. Thus, they planned to hike the famed, daunting Grande Randonnée 20. "The Twenty" covers their 124-mile trek along the spine of Corsica, which... Read More

The moving memoir "Watching for Dragonflies" is a wife and caregiver’s tale of contending with a spouse’s multiple sclerosis diagnosis. In Suzanne Marriott’s memoir "Watching for Dragonflies", lessons are mined from a decade of... Read More

Set in a colorful parallel world, the fantasy novel "The Byways" follows a girl who gets lost in order to find herself. In Mary Pascual’s exciting fantasy novel "The Byways", a lost girl gathers courage as she pursues self-discovery in... Read More

In Dorothy Tse’s novel "Owlish", a bizarre love affair upends a respectable man’s dull but orderly life in a city that is anything but ordinary. Perhaps it was inevitable that Professor Q, a middle-aged man caught in a dead-end job... Read More

A teenager forges new bonds with people who help her to survive her troubled times in the poignant novel "Eat and Get Gas". A teenager navigates life in "Eat and Get Gas", J. A. Wright’s endearing novel about love, family flaws, and... Read More